This is the second in a series profiling Dewey & LeBoeuf’s former leaders.

Martin Bienenstock (University of Pennsylvania, B.S., Wharton School, 1974; University of Michigan, J.D., 1977) was heralded as “one of the most innovative, creative restructuring attorneys in the country” when the Dewey & LeBoeuf spin machine put him at the center of an April 21, 2012, article in The New York Times. He seemed to be the perfect candidate to save his firm.